General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . ting on thecauses, effects, and cure of that morbid affec-tion, chiefly by quotations from all the authorsof antiquity, winch abound in every page, andare thinly interspersed with thoughts of hisown. These, however, are often very striking,and display much depth and originality of re-flection. The work was first printed in quarto,and afterwards went through several editions infolio, to the great emolument of the books
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . ting on thecauses, effects, and cure of that morbid affec-tion, chiefly by quotations from all the authorsof antiquity, winch abound in every page, andare thinly interspersed with thoughts of hisown. These, however, are often very striking,and display much depth and originality of re-flection. The work was first printed in quarto,and afterwards went through several editions infolio, to the great emolument of the is now become very scarce, having been re-called to notice by an ingenious essay of of Manchester, who, in detecting manyother plagiarisms of the celebrated Sterne, haspointed out various passages copied verbatimfrom Burton. Tlie author was not cured byhis own remedy. He died at Christ-church in1639, and the following inscription of his ov/nwriting was put upon his monument: Faucisnotus, paucioribus ignotus, hie jacet Democri-tus junior, cui vitam dedit & mortem melan-cholia : {Known to few, unknown to fewer,here lies Democritus junior, to whom me-.
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